{"id":138,"date":"2010-02-01T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:00:30","slug":"ch-ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ch-ch-changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How has the world changed in the past ten years?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cell phones have become ubiquitous.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone is on the internet. <\/li>\n<li>Broadcast TV has shifted from analog to digital.<\/li>\n<li>High speed access to the internet is available everywhere.<\/li>\n<li>Many people think of the library as somewhere to go to use a computer.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia has become a creditable research resource.<\/li>\n<li>There are working prototypes of flying cars (horizontal fan style).<\/li>\n<li>We survived the Y2K scare.<\/li>\n<li>We survived a major terrorist attack.<\/li>\n<li>We survived 8 years of the Bush administration.<\/li>\n<li>The DVR has freed people to watch what they want when they want to watch it (without the commercials if they like).<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic languages are making a strong comeback.<\/li>\n<li>Hybrid gas-electric cars are a fairly large segment of the automobile market.<\/li>\n<li>The space shuttle is near end of life, as is the International Space Station.<\/li>\n<li>We have a black president.<\/li>\n<li>We are experiencing climate change unprecedented in modern times.<\/li>\n<li>I am a grandfather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So much for the short list. I may revisit the question in a couple of days if I think of any important changes that I forgot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=15bfe6d7-7610-86e8-9d1a-219126632346\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has the world changed in the past ten years? Cell phones have become ubiquitous. Everyone is on the internet. Broadcast TV has shifted from analog to digital. High speed access to the internet is available everywhere. Many people think of the library as somewhere to go to use a computer. Wikipedia has become a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ch-ch-ch-changes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}